1002. Kings of King: The Stand (1994 Miniseries), Part 1

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4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

This episode covers the first half of the 1994 ABC television event, The Stand. We’re covering this as a two-parter, as it’s technically four movie length episodes. For this episode, Michael and Abe discuss the mythological backing of King’s stories, the quality of the production, and guess how it’s going to end (probably not with a bang, but a whimper, amiright?). Features: Michael Swaim: https://bsky.app/profile/michaelswaim.bsky.social Abe Epperson: https://bsky.app/profile/abeepp.bsky.social Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans Check our store to buy Small Beans merch! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-small-beans-store

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0:00.0	Stephen King
0:03.0	Stephen King
0:25.6	Stand in the place where you live, burn it down.
0:33.6	Think about a trash can man and that's what your name is now. Stand in that place that you
0:39.9	burn now turn west. Think about the devil now and wonder why you do what he says. Your feet
0:47.4	are going to be on the ground. Your head is there to set stuff on fire if wishes were trees the trees would be
0:59.1	burning listen to reason randall is flurning
1:04.5	flurning flurning flaring flagging whatever He's a devil, you know.
1:12.2	He's a denim devil, baby.
1:14.6	A little R.M.
1:15.5	Yeah, yeah.
1:19.5	To start me off on this podcast, that was wonderful.
1:20.2	Thanks, dude. I can't tell you how upset I was with R.E.M.
1:24.2	A band I love very much when I asked my dad as a kid, like, learned in science about rapid eye movement, you know, as part of the sleep cycle. And I'm like, so that's what that stands for. And he's like, no, in fact. And he directed me to an interview where they asked Michael Stipe if R.m. stands for that. And he says, no. But they never say what it does stand for and i'm like then de facto it
1:46.6	does stand for that you can't just do that you can't that's what everyone thinks so that's what it is now
1:52.1	if you haven't filled in the details it's like the 182 and blink 182 it haunts me forever you know
1:58.9	i was disappointed in R.M.
2:01.0	When I heard about all the people they killed.
2:03.9	But other than that, I love their music and what they stand for and the people they kill.
2:08.1	Yeah, I grew up on that monster album for sure.
2:10.7	Well, everybody hurts when R.E.M. comes and hurts you.
2:14.7	Yeah, R.M. is a monster.
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